Posts by Holden Pike

Pretty decent mix of flicks being nominated. And even though these categories aren't being tabulated, here are some of my further picks for best of 2004. If for no other reason than there were lots of good films, but only ten...

Drat. Looks like I'm too late, but here are my picks anyway. 1. Dogville (Lars von Trier) 2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) 3. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George) 4. A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) 5....

Thanks so much, Gordon! Just ordered the HK edition.

Can anyone tell me if the German DVD of Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (Gloomy Sunday) has an English subtitle option? Danke.

Here are a bunch of '70s time capsules, all good to great in quality, all ultimately sweet - even if some are darker humor than others (in no particular order)...Breaking Away (1979 - Peter yates)Fun with Dick & Jane (1977 - Ted...

I was at ComiCon and saw the Sin City footage. It's fu*king fantastic! Mickey Rourke is so Marv it's unbelievable. Bruce is perfect too. And Rosario Dawson. And wait until you see Nick Stahl in his Yellow Bastard make-up. Wow. It's...

"A place where nobody dared to go a love that we came to know, we called it..." Xanadu (1980) Sad, but true. This crapfest of an excuse for a movie touched something deep and cheesy inside my polyestered soul as a lad, and I...

What the heck is this "multiple angles" button for? I just got a disc from another region and it won't play on my non-region-free machine! What's all this crap I hear about Dekard being a Replicant? Why doesn't Spielberg do...

"She was a blonde: a blonde to make a Bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window." - Raymond Chandler "Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it does not." - Thomas Berger

I don't know that Timothy Carey's uber-cult classic The World's Greatest Sinner (1962) ever got a true commercial release of any kind. For those of us who have seen it over the years, it's certainly indellible, and I wish an Anchor Bay...